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Thanks to everyone for joining us again for First Friday Q&A, episode 212.

And you know what the question is everybody is just just waiting for us to answer. Why we didn't put out on an episode last week? No, but maybe it's number two. Oh. Where are your laptops? Oh. Finally. Thank you, Apple. We got our new desktops in. They're set up and they're awesome. Yep. And why didn't we put an episode out last week? Because I thought last week was first Friday Q&A, because I forgot that, you know, there was an extra day in the month of July and thought that fell on a Thursday. And we were just too busy and I didn't have time to put news articles together. Yeah. Yep. Yeah, we need to work on that. Luckily, one of our listeners, Lufik, called us on that and let us know that last Friday wasn't the first Friday Q&A, but this one it will be. Yeah, yeah, it works out. All right, speaking of working out, we got some reviews. You want to try to read them with all the ampers signs in there? Oh, yeah. Page and Mark make the weekly wrap-up of oil and gas events

in news a pleasure to absorb and comprehend. As a newbie to the industry, I absolutely adore

the fact that there are people who share the same love I have for the industry. Roll tide.

My response to that wearing an LSU t-shirt is, well, besides thank you for the compliment,

Go Tigers. Yeah. As a five-star review, we, besides thank you for the compliment, Go Tigers.

Yeah.

As a five-star review, we got another five-star review.

Found this valuable resource while laid off and going back to school in 2017.

I never miss an episode.

So thank you for both these people at Left Reviews. If you'd like to get a shout out in the show, or if you have some suggestion, leave us a review

and then let us know what

you'd like to see change. All right. So let's get into the questions. All right. So this first one is pretty lengthy. So I'll do my best to sum it up. Yeah, you have to skip around a good bit. Yeah, a little bit. So it's from Jane Doe, which is, she's a logging engineer at an undisclosed company. Hi Mark and Paige. I look forward to

each episode coming out. I love you and Paige and your relentless optimism, good humor and relevant

content make an excellent show. I'm a young open hold logging engineer currently laid off and I'm

looking for some encouragement. I love what I do and the job, but the industry

and turbulence of the last years have been difficult. I had to work incredibly hard to even get

into this industry and found my first job by a fortunate cold call, which that's something you

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